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Among the crowds was telephone company employee Ellery Douglass Benton, who would pass down to his children the lore of the fallen bank-robber couple, as would many others present. “Everybody...
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Obit: E.D. Benton Final Rites Incomplete Ellery D. Benton, 66, of 514 Water St., died Sunday in a hospital in Tyler where he was visiting a daughter. Funeral arrangements with Boze-Mitchell Funeral Home are incomplete. Mr. Benton was a retired Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. employee. Survivors include his widow, the...
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Access Restrictions: Open for research. Preferred Citation: Robert Benton Papers, Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University-San Marcos Acquisition Information: Gift of Robert Benton, 2001-104 & 2001-135 Processing Information: Processed by Amy Esdorn, Devlin Flanary, Lara Hall, Marilyn Wade, and Alan Schaefer, 2009.
Writer and director Robert Douglass Benton was born on September 29, 1932, in Waxahachie, Texas. He is the son of Ellery Douglass and Dorothy (Spaulding) Benton. Benton attended The University of Texas at Austin and received a BFA in 1953. His classmates included Jayne Mansfield and Rip Torn, an actor he would direct in the 1987 film Nadine. While ...
The Robert Benton Papers document the filmmaking career of the Oscar-winning writer and director from 1969-1994. The collection is arranged in six series: personal papers (1940s, 1987 and 1984); produced works (1972-1994); unproduced works (1969-1988); works by others (including works from Walter Bernstein and Naomi Foner); photographs; artwork (st...
Series I: Personal Papers, 1940s, 1987, 1984 Box 1 The smallest of the series, it consists of papers regarding Italy (1940s), information on a computer, clippings from the Bakker scandal (1987), and a playbill from Death of a Salesman. Series II: Produced Works, 1972–1994 Boxes 1 - 28 Produced works comprise the bulk of the collection. It consists ...
May 24, 2018 · Ellery Douglass Benton. husband. Ann Benton. daughter. Private User. child. Clinton Thomas Spalding. father. Willie (Strong) Spalding. mother. Robert Kennedy Spalding. brother. About Dorothy (Spalding) Benton. Daughter of Clinton Thomas and Wilie Strong Spalding, was born at Sherman, TX on July 17, 1901.
Full name, Robert Douglass Benton; born September 29, 1932, in Waxahachie (some sources say Dallas), TX; son of Ellery Douglass (a telephone company employee) and Dorothy (maiden name, Spaulding) Benton; married Sally Rendigs (a painter and illustrator), October 20, 1964; children: John.
Writer and director Robert Douglass Benton was born on September 29, 1932, in Waxahachie, Texas. He is the son of Ellery Douglass and Dorothy (Spaulding) Benton. Benton attended The University of Texas at Austin and received a BFA in 1953.
